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  • Six years after leaving his ancestral home on the grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Tsering Dondrup says he is still trying to adapt to his new life in town.

    Dondrup has just finished sculpting a stone yak that he can sell for 900 yuan (141 U.S. dollars). His wife, daughter and son-in-law have all learned to sculpt, as the craft provides income for the entire family.

  • Last year, the family of nine earned more than 20,000 yuan by making and selling sculptures.

    Dondrup, 45, is one of 50,000 Tibetan herders who had to give up their nomadic life in the region of Sanjiangyuan, the source of China's three major rivers: the Yangtze, the Yellow River and the Lancang River.

  • China started moving residents out of the 150,000-square-km region in 2005, when the central government started a 7.5 billion yuan project to ecologically restore areas that had been damaged by excessive herding.

    The former herders now live in newly built communities near town centers. "We have better access to housing, medical services and vocational training now," Dondrup said.

  • In 2009, a stone sculpture production company set up shop in Dondrup's community in Zekog County, jointly funded by the government and a collective investment from 100 local households.

    "The community earned 1.15 million yuan by selling stone sculptures last year. Earnings have already topped 800,000 yuan in the first six months of this year," said community leader Tsering Namgyal.

  • To help the herdsmen adapt to city life, the provincial government offers vocational training and has set up a special fund to encourage them to run small businesses, said Li Xiaonan, deputy director of the Sanjiangyuan Ecological Preservation and Construction Office.

    However, few communities have established marketable businesses like Dondrup's community.

  • In a migrants' village in Maqen County, located in Qinghai Province's Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, more than 150 households weave and sell Tibetan-style carpets for a living. However, the village's only carpet factory went bankrupt and closed last October.

    "The factory couldn't make ends meet because of the rising prices of raw materials," said village official Ning Jie.

  • Most of the new migrants still miss their nomadic lives, yearning to listen to the yaks and tread the grasslands of their ancestral home.

    "My family lived comfortably by herding yaks and sheep in the pastures," said 60-year-old migrant Geche.

    Geche's family now lives on an annual government subsidy that is "less than the price of two yaks. Everything is so expensive here in town," Geche said.

  • However, it is no longer possible for the migrants to return to their old lives. "The grasslands in my hometown were blocked off by the government. Besides, I don't have money to buy yaks and sheep anymore," Geche said.

    Geche said that he hopes his sons will eventually settle down in town; this is the main reason why he agreed to be relocated in the first place. However, a lack of professional skills has forced many young migrants out of the towns.

  • Geche's eldest son has moved to a different pasture far from the town, as he found it too difficult to secure a job. He now herds cattle for local families and makes a meager monthly salary of 700 yuan.

    Last year, the local government spent an average of 900 yuan per migrant on vocational training, eventually pushing the region's employment rate to 30 percent, said Ren Mingxia, deputy director of the Sanjiangyuan office of Yushu Prefecture.

  • Sun Faping, vice president of the Qinghai Academy of Social Sciences, said that securing a job and surviving in a new environment remains the biggest challenge for the former nomads.

    "It will take two or three generations to solve all the problems they are facing now," said Li.

  • Speaking at a plenary meeting of the General Assembly which reviewed the UN secretary-general's report on the work of the organization, Wang Min, Chinese deputy permanent representative to the UN,

  • said that China supports the necessary and reasonable reforms of the UN in order to increase its authority and efficiency, strengthen its ability to address new challenges and threats as well as better implement obligations entrusted by the UN Charter.

  • The UN reform should be all-dimensional and multi-sectoral, especially produce positive results in the area of development, provide necessary guarantee in mechanism and resources for development in realizing Millennium Development Goals and truly benefit the vast majority of developing countries, Wang said.

  • As the Rio+20 sustainable conference is approaching, China hopes the conference to take stock of the international cooperation in the fields of environment and development over the past two decades, form consensus, take specific actions and promote global cause of sustainable development, Wang noted.

  • The conference and its preparation process should stick to Rio Spirit and principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities", respect autonomy of states in pursuing sustainable development and especially pay attention to the concerns of developing countries, he said.

  • On food security challenges, Wang pointed out that food security does not only affect economy and livelihood of all countries, but also affect global development and security.

  • China called on the international community to adopt idea of common development, take positive and effective measures of coordination to stabilize prices of bulk commodity, prevent excessive speculation and safeguard the food security in the world.

  • Wang also said that this year is the 40th anniversary of the People's Republic of China's restoration of lawful seat at the UN.

  • "China will continue to actively undertake international obligations to the best of its abilities, adhere to the road of peaceful development, follow an independent and peaceful foreign policy, commits itself to creating peaceful international environment and promoting common development in the world," he added.

  • Government figures show the trading volume of apartments in Beijing was down 50 percent on the figure last year, with counties neighboring Beijing the new hot spots for property investors.

  • Property prices in Beijing have stabilized since last year, following the introduction of various policies to restrain soaring property prices, leaving speculators little room for earning. However, as a result, counties outside the capital have become a new target for investors.

  • "The demand for property in Beijing has now moved to neighboring counties in Hebei province," Li Wenjie, general manager for the North China region of property agency Centaline China, told China Daily on Sunday.

  • For instance, in less than a year, the average property price in Chicheng, a poor county in Beijing's neighboring Hebei province, almost doubled to more than 4,000 yuan ($626) per square meter according to Xinhua News Agency.

    "Housing prices have risen dramatically. How can we ordinary people afford them?" A local resident surnamed Guo, who makes around 1,000 yuan a month, told Xinhua.

  • In Dachang Hui autonomous county, also in Hebei province, housing prices are now between 4,000 and 5,000 yuan per square meter, compared with 3,000 yuan a year ago and in Zhuozhou city, housing prices have risen 2,000 yuan per square meter in the last two years.

    Although real estate developers put prodigious faith in September sales, demand in Beijing did not surge as expected this year.

  • The total trading volume of the city's commodity housing in September was down 51 percent compared with same month last year.

    The weak demand will continue in October and the price will be dragged down, said Zhang Yue, chief analyst with property agency Home Link.

    The average property price was 21,735 yuan a square meter last month, down slightly on August.

  • Zhang Dawei, chief researcher with Centaline China, told Beijing News that developers will have to lower their housing prices if they want to attract purchasers.

    The central government reiterated its determination to rein in rising property prices in January, when the State Council released a range of strict policies to curb speculation in the property market.

  • Free the World from the Regime of China

  • Regime of China spammers are an environmental disaster

  • Free Tibet

  • Free Burma

  • Free Russia

  • @SauIan You Sheila Shigley impersonator cannot undo the deaths caused by White invaders upon the Native Americans. I cannot uno the great things that the Chinese government for rescuing the Tibetans serfs from the Da Lie Lama, nor undo the fact the real Sheila Marie Shigley is 45 years old but you are only 35.

    What you are saying, is "it's ok if White invaders kill people, but the Chinese can't rescue its own people."

    That's ridiculous.

    Do you have the guts to use your real name? I do

  • High-ranking military officials from China and Russia held talks here Friday, pledging to further step up bilateral military cooperation between the two countries.

    During an official visit to Moscow, Guo Boxiong, Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission, met with Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on bilateral military relations.

  • Guo noted that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the signing of the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation, adding that the China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership have maintained the momentum of a robust growth.

  • He stressed that Chinese President Hu Jintao's successful visit to Russia in June and the consensus reached by both countries' leaders during Hu's visit have determined the future direction of the development of bilateral ties and laid solid political foundations for the further promotion of military relations between the two countries.

  • Under the current complicated and changeable international situation, the strengthening of pragmatic military exchanges and cooperation between the two sides is of great significance, Guo said.

    

  • Statistics below show funds for the housing program in Tibet Autonomous Region from 2006 to 2010.

    - 3.84 billion yuan ($594.73 million) from regional government

    - 451 million yuan ($69.85 million) from prefecture-level governments

    - 253 million yuan ($39.18 million) from county-level governments

  • - 328 million yuan ($50.80 million) from aid funds of other provinces and municipalities

    - 9.3 billion yuan ($1.44 billion) from farmers and herdsmen themselves

    - 2.91 billion yuan ($450.69 million) from loans by financial institutions

  • More than 300 doctors from about 20 provincial regions across China on Thursday left Beijing for Tibet, where they will offer free surgery to children with congenital heart disease and people with cataracts.

  • During their 10-day stay in Tibet, the doctors will visit Lhasa, Xigaze, Shannan, Nyingchi and Ngari, the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the organizer of the program, said in a statement.

    

  • A source with the department told Xinhua sponsors have invested "millions of dollars" to better facilitate the doctors and enrich the medical donations.

    Aside from providing surgery, the medical specialists are expected to pair up with local doctors and offer them short-term training.

  • In an effort to help impoverished newborns with congenital heart disease to have access to medical services, the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee has organized doctors to preform free operations on more than 100 children since 2008.

    Most of these children were from China's hinterland regions of Sichuan, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, according to a statement from the department.

  • No Empire Lasts Forever and that's why the Da Lie Lama's serfdom is gone :-)

  • China's reform of its healthcare system has put it on the right path, Health Minister Chen Zhu told the Harvard America-China Health Summit in Boston on Wednesday.

    The plan has lowered medical expenses for Chinese patients and has made healthcare more accessible, affordable and equitable, Chen said.

  • As part of the plan, the government has spent at least 850 billion yuan ($133.2 billion) to improve the healthcare system between 2009 and 2011, which had lowered the cost of essential medicines by at least 30 percent.

    Chen also said the wide gap between health services in rural and urban areas is slowly closing and government subsidies for subscribers to the new rural medical plan are 10 times higher than subsidies in 2003.

  • China's reform of its healthcare system, dubbed "Healthy China 2020", began three years ago and aims to provide universal national health service.

    "Healthy China 2020 is a crucial period of time for China's healthcare reform, a transition of many aspects of China's economy and society," Chen said.

    In the last decade the government's share of total health expenditures has increased from 16 percent to 29 percent.

  • "This indicates the continuing government investment into health," Chen said. "I'm confident that over time, health equity will be met in China."

    The inaugural summit, organized by the China Initiative of the Harvard School of Public Health, seeks to examine health reforms in China and the United States through dialogue between Chinese and American health policymakers, experts and leaders. About 600 people participated in the two-day event.

  • Like China, the US recently embarked on healthcare reform to provide medical coverage for an additional 32 million Americans by 2014.

    The US may be the world's biggest healthcare spender, but it wants to learn from the Chinese experience, said Sherry Glied with the US Department of Health and Human Services.

    The US and China have much to learn from one another's experiences and challenges, she said.

  • The summit takes place at a timely moment in global health, said Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and head of the Harvard School of Public Health China Initiative.

    "Both China and the US are embarking on major health reform. China's health reform is one of the most observed in the world. We are at this historical moment where the world is searching for ways to finance healthcare and to combat diseases and malnutrition," Frenk said.

  • "China is a nation of complex problems but it also has great energy for innovation. This is probably the health reform that will not only benefit China but the rest of the world," Frenk said.

    Jorge Dominguez, vice-provost for international affairs at Harvard University, said the summit is important for sustaining ties between Harvard and China.

    "More than 200 Harvard faculty members told us they are having a significant collaboration or partnership with China," Dominguez said.

  • @ SaulanES

    Free youtube from impersonators

  • @ Sauian hate channel

    Free youtube from haters

  • @SauIan Yes, truth is a funny thing...no matter how much it is obscured, it emerges after time that you are impersonating the real Sheila Shigley. You are only 35 but the real Sheila Shigley is 45 years old. How can you impersonate someone while the age difference is 10 years? Are you saying you graduated from the West High School while you were only 1 year old? Truth is indeed a funny thing. Lol. The funnier thing is your gay nephew Shaun's comment. Lol :-)

  • @Saulan aka Sheila Shigley impersonator. The real Sheila Shigley is 4 years older than her sister Candace. So explain to everyone why Candace is already 41 years old and you are only 35 according to your YouTube profile?! Obviously your supervisor did not give you the right memo when you are impersonating the real Sheila Shigley. Lol!!! Are you saying the real Sheila Shigley can graduate from West High School when she was only 1 year old? Do some researches before you impersonate please!

  • No Empire Lasts Forever

  • Free Tibet from Nuclear Waste Dumping

  • @ channel tyoungos

    next pile of garbage please

  • @SauIan New York Deputy Mayor's ass was forced to resigned after he beat the crap out of his wife because he cannot find anymore Native Americans to kill. Why White racist invaders are so into violence?

    Now his ass is gone.

    Good.

    Drain the budget, and keep draining until the White racist invaders' killing machine is stopped and the land is returned to the Native Americans!!!

  • @ FaiunGongIsAmazing

    Pleaser tell us if your comments from 1 day ago had anything to do with Tibet.

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    You normally copy and paste articles off Regime of China websites.

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    Its sad that a Racist Chinese man behaves in such a pathetic way.

  • @ FaiunGongIsAmazing

    You made 11 comments in a row 1 day ago.

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    This is a WARNING for spamming. Youtube takes action against spammers.

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    Youtube doesn't exist to cater for bored racist Chinese men who have nothing useful to do with their time. There is plenty of evidence of your spamming on this video when you look at all comments.

  • Free China from poor quality factories

  • its too bad that Chinese companies don't invest more in China

  • Proportional VOTING for the US and China

  • @ tyoungos

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    Corrupt Regime of China Officials probably have plenty of money.

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    Free China from CORRUPT Officials in 2011

  • @ Hong Kong Spammer tyoungos

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    Most Chinese can't afford apartments in China

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    Free China from POVERTY in 2011

  • @ Hong Kong Spammer tyoungos

    The EVIL Regime of China has been causing PROBLEMS all over the World

  • @ Faiun GongIsAmazing aka Hong Kong Spammer tyoungos

    Only 6 spams from you

  • @ tyoungos

    Have you ever tried Falun Gong ?

  • @ tyoungos

    You are bound to get a Guinness World Record for spamming on youtube

  • @ tyoungos

    Please ring Guiness Book today

  • @ tyoungos

    Look at all your spam above.

  • @ tyoungos

    Do you have plans to head back to Hong Kong ?

  • @ tyoungos

    I hope you are enjoying living in the US

  • @ tyoungos

    Do you get paid more for spamming in the US ??

  • @ tyoungos

    How come you left Hong Kong ?

  • Free the World

    fro the

    Evil Regime of New Zealand

    Evil Regime of New Zealand

    Evil Regime of New Zealand

    Evil Regime of New Zealand!!!!!!!

  • New Zealand is an occupied and invaded country

  • FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY for New Zealand

  • She wants to get tanned in the summer, but her mom covers her up and says boys don't like suntanned girls. She dreams of becoming a photojournalist or art teacher, her mom wants her to aim higher. She likes to voice her opinion, her mom expects her to be obedient. It's a battle growing up in the United States for Christy Aumer, who has a Chinese mother and American father.

  • She is a child caught between cultures.

    The youngest of three daughters says her father had more of a say about how she was raised compared to her two sisters, so she had more freedom than them when growing up. "My sisters never had a sleepover," Aumer says. "I am the only child in my family that had sleepovers."

  • Aumer says her life is a tug of war between Western ways and the Chinese values her mother tries to inculcate in her. Her plight is highlighted by the storm about parenting models stirred by Amy Chua's book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a bestseller. Chua is dubbed a "tiger mom" because, though she lives in the US, she insisted on Chinese values while raising her two daughters.

  • Cultural conflicts within the family, it seems, are unavoidable due to the differences between how Chinese and Americans educate their children.

    Liu Haiyue is the father of a 10-year-old who was surprised to be told by his son one day that he was not supposed to make a sound when eating soup.

  • "He had learned American table manners," Liu's wife Chen Tingting says. "In China, it's OK for people to slurp their soup and make a noise. I don't know whether I should ask my husband to change his behavior, or explain to my son that this is the Chinese way of doing things."

  • @ DemocracyGiadiator

    How come you only spammed 8 spams ???

  • @ DemocracyGIadiator

    You made 8 comments in a row 3 days ago.

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    This is a WARNING for spamming. Youtube takes action against spammers.

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    Your spam doesn't appear to have anything to do with Tibet.

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    Free youtube from anti Tibetan racists.

  • Freedom for

    Tibet,

    South Mongolia,

    Uyghurs,

    Rural Chinese and

    Migrant Chinese workers

  • @FalunGongIsAmazing

    Free Falun Gong

    Free Falun Gong also

  • @FalunGongIsAmazing

    all

    the groups above need to be FREE from

    the

    Racist State Terrorist Regime of China

    Racist State Terrorist Regime of China

    Racist State Terrorist Regime of China

  • It is sad that New Zealand is an INVADED and Occupied country.

  • @TbetRox Nobody in their right mind could believe DaLie Lama is the reincarnated God King. He is a slavery master who has murdered millions of Tibetans before he ass was kicked out from Tibet by the Tibetans.

  • @ tyoungos

    Do you know that Tibetans, rural Chinese and Falun Gong are badly oppressed ???

  • @ tyoungos

    Do you know that Tibet is an INVADED and Occupied country ???

  • @ tyoungos

    Its sad you don't care about human rights in Tibet or China

  • @ tyoungos

    Its looks like you have a new spamming channel